[Patrick Vandergeten]

Dear all,
I contacted the (excellent!) helpdesk of Sony a week ago and got a message with the info that Sony stopd with consumer video editing software like Movie Studio and that Magix continues the software and support etc.
Can somebody confirm this?

[Patrick Vandergeten]

Absolutely right! The evolution of technology goes fast (that is not bad at all) and is oftenly so imprevisibleso that ther is a chance that we develop an attitude of living in the present, without thinking about tomorrow, kind of fastfood mentality. Consume today and don’t think about tomorrow. Luckily I see many positive changes in the society, people who live and act in a long time perspective to be not completely depressed by this video-tragedy. 😉
A long discussion, not for this forum, I presume.

[Patrick Vandergeten]

Absolutely right! The evolution of technology goes fast (that is not bad at all) and is oftenly so imprevisibleso that ther is a chance that we develop an attitude of living in the present, without thinking about tomorrow, kind of fastfood mentality. Consume today and don’t think about tomorrow. Luckily I see many positive changes in the society, people who live and act in a long time perspective to be not completely depressed by this video-tragedy. 😉
A long discussion, not for his forum, I presume.

[Patrick Vandergeten]

Dear Diane,

I replyed you allready directly. I repeat here to respect the forum spirit.

The older Canopus Codec Pack (6.01) is 32 bit. I installed it under Win10 pc. Some older Canopus edited files started to be playable or convertable by for example Freemake but this was not the final solution.
Then I tried this one:
– Grass Valley Code pack Grass Valley Codec Pack (v7.31.2939) for Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 (64-bit) Released: 2014-07-24

Closing my ears for the ‘boommm’ sound that I was prepared for to come out of the Win10 PC, but… it works! :-))
You’ll find it under: https://www.grassvalley.com/support/downloads/products?product=general
I still am looking for the best video converter, in particular one that respects the high quality of Canopus/Grass Valley.

For the restoring of old videotapes, as I told you about this guy in Belgium who doe that as hobby, but where the official TV channels come to for restoring old documents: his name is Frank Tytgat, e-mail: videorestore2@yahoo.com. You never knoww, maybe he knwos other people in the world that can do the same job or maybe he an do the job for you by sending tapes + usb stick or so by post….

Kind regards,
Patrick

[Patrick Vandergeten]

Dear Miss,

I am very glad to read that it is still possible to convert old Canopus DV files to a more universal codec. As I have tons of video made in DV, I had several diseases now while I tried to play them on a new pc after a long time. I am using Windows Mediapleyr to play video quickly, I am editing in Sony Movie Studio PLatinum. It is not only a catastroph for the family videos, as you can imagine, but as I was making video for art projects (amonsgt others) since the late 70’s !! 🙂 I digitalised many many hours of material in DV using Canopus (Raptor and then Let’s Edit).

So please, your solution offered here create makes me ask:

– can the Canopus DV File Converter,(from 2001) work on Win10?

– Is that compatible with the codecs and other things installed by Sony Platinum (or other video editing software?)

– Is converting Canopus DV AVI tot Windows Avi the best option, as now there is Mp4, ADVHC, … ?

– I opened a Canopus Avi file into Format Factory and this software was able to read it and convert it, but is it a good idea to use that software to convert from AVI (Canopus) to AVI (Windows I suppose?)

– Will I have to pass the nex hundreds of evenings and nights by converting all my old Canopus DV ? 🙁
Or will I have to pass the Canopus codec from generation to generation (pc’s, children, grand children… 😉

I will be very grateful to you for any kind of help, even partially or little or much…

Kind regards,
Patrick, Belgium